Archive for February 11th, 2009

By Sondra Whitt A common practice on college campuses is to ask professors to think about their life and what matters most to them in light of their approaching death and to then impart what they’ve learned in a “last lecture.” A professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, Randy Pausch was asked to give one such lecture. Dr. Pausch was different than the other speakers in that he knew this actually could be his last lecture because he had pancreatic cancer. Although his lecture was video-taped, he wanted to continue it to include a lot more life-lessons for… Read More